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Alexander the Great, the End of the Persian Empire, and the Descent into India

2024/10/10
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Alexander the Great's campaigns didn't end once he had defeated the Persian king Darius III and conquered the heart of his empire; he went still further, into the vastness of the Iranian Plateau and Central Asia, and then south into India.

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